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ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 16, 2005) – The famous works of World War II cartoonist, Bill Mauldin, will be commemorated through Bill Mauldin’s War: Some Things Never Change. The publication of the book coincides with the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Aug. 15 was Victory Japan or VJ Day and Sept. 2. is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. The National Guard Bureau’s Office of Public Affairs will publish the 50-page Mauldin book later this year. Featuring about 20 of Mauldin’s cartoons, the book will be...

Okay.....so where do you draw the line??? I mean....just how do you decide???? This person did this....that person did that. ALL did as they were asked by their Nation...and yet....some in this Nation are trying to paint some as "Good"...and some as "Bad" based on where they spent their time in the service of their Country. So...where do you draw the line??? The Democratic's are trying to paint one person (John Kerry) with the the words "Good"..based upon his time spent on active duty in Vietnam. They are also trying to paint another (George Bush) with the words "Bad"....based upon...

On a crisp Sunday afternoon 62 years ago, Dan Kennerly played a touch football game at Emory University that he would never forget. Kennerly was having fun with some buddies from Decatur only weeks before his freshman year at the University of Georgia, where coach Wally Butts had offered him a football scholarship. A car drove up and a friend yelled the news: Pearl Harbor had been bombed. The game ended. Four of the 12 boys on that field would be killed in World War II. And Kennerly, who had never seen snow stick to the ground, would survive a...

<p>He's an old man now, frail and sick and lying in a bed in an Orange County nursing home. But there was a time when he was a friend to millions of Americans, a man who brought laughter to countless guys who had precious little to laugh about.</p>

WWII CARTOONIST BILL MAULDIN DIES AT 81 NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) . Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who as a young Army rifleman during World War II gave newspaper readers back home a sardonic, foxhole-level view of the front with his drawings of weary, dogface GIs Willie and Joe, died Wednesday at 81. Mauldin died at a nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, said Andy Mauldin, one of his seven sons. ``It's really good that he's not suffering anymore,'' he said. ``He had a terrible struggle.'' Mauldin was one of the pre-eminent editorial cartoonists of the 20th...